Letter

Hayes to By the President: Wm. M. Evarts, November 9, 1880

Author

Hayes

Recipient

By the President: Wm. M. Evarts

Date

November 9, 1880

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure in No. 123.]

President Hayes to the Emperor of Brazil.

Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, to His Majesty Dom Pedro I, Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil:

Great and Good Friend: I have received intelligence from the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States in Brazil of the nomination by your Imperial Majesty of the Councillor, Baron de Arinos, the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Your Majesty at Brussels, as the third commissioner, provided for by the text of the convention concerning claims, entered into on the 15th of January last between the United States and France.

The Government of the United States fully appreciates the courtesy of Your Majesty in acceding to the invitation respecting this appointment, and will be peculiarly gratified to welcome to the scene of his labors a gentleman already distinguished by the regard of Your Majesty.

May God have Your Majesty in His wise keeping.

Written at Washington the 9th day of November, in the year 1880, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifth.

Your good friend,

R. B. HAYES.

By the President: Wm. M. Evarts, Secretary of State.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.